To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldo…

W. E. B. Du Bois
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To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. ✨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, p.67, Oxford University Press
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The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime. ✨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Souls of Black … ▶
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. ✨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, p.121, Courier Corporation
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done. ✨ W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). Prayers for Dark People
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To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. ✨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, p.67, Oxford University Press

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